Chicken Breed Focus - Ameraucana

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THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!
I think many, many people are completely unaware that Ameraucanas and Araucanas and Easter Eggers are not the same, or that feed stores/hatcheries are not labeling them properly.
The sharing of this information is very important, and very much appreciated. (IMO)

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[Lynn Manes]

This is Goldie. She is our sweet, docile Americauna and lays her beautiful blue eggs for us daily. My first Americauna was Ami, a Wheaton, but we lost her sadly due to an internal broken egg we were told.

 

[lizzychick]

I ordered a blue ameraucana, she is a month old and her first feathers are black. Does that mean I ended up with the 25%chance of black? Or might her color change with her first molt?

I ordered her specifically for her blue eggs, but now it looks like more then half my mixed flock is ending up black feathered. I really want to hold out hope she will be blue feathered. Please ease a mother hens nerves.....

 

[junebuggena]

It would depend what her parents were. A black bird and a blue bird would produce a 50% chance of being either black or blue. Two blues would give a 25% black, 50% blue, and 25% splash.

 

[lizzychick]

It would depend what her parents were. A black bird and a blue bird would produce a 50% chance of being either black or blue. Two blues would give a 25% black, 50% blue, and 25% splash.

Hatchery chick. Those are the same percentages they give. I'm sure it is not splash, but my question is if its initial feathers are black, is there a chance of going blue after a molt, or is the primary color the final color?

 

[robgray]

This is snowy, baby and golden....

Baby has no muff but lays a blue egg

 

[JensChickies]

Look at My sweet girl, Dottie. She has come a long way from when I first got her. She lets me pick her up now and doesn't run away. Now to work on her sister Mabel. Mabel will take more work lol.

 

[junebuggena]

This is snowy, baby and golden....



Baby has no muff but lays a blue egg

 

[junebuggena]

Look at My sweet girl, Dottie. She has come a long way from when I first got her. She lets me pick her up now and doesn't run away. Now to work on her sister Mabel. Mabel will take more work lol.

 

[lizzychick]

LOVE this crazy chick!!